A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Gandhinagar has 16,945 manufacturing MSMEs. 30.2% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
76% of registered enterprises are in services while 24% are in manufacturing. Only 10% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 91% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Gandhinagar, which ranks 10 of 33 in Gujarat for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49.9 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 10.3% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,66,011.